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RESULTSSearching enCompass books for 'James Meek'... We found 4 matches.
James Meek
Drivetime Sounds like easy money: collecting an antique for a rich stranger. Alan Allen, freshly unemployed, short of cash, and caught up in a bizarre case of mistaken identity, is about to find out otherwise. But not before being swept on a European wild-goose chase in this refreshing, surreal and gloriously funny novel.
Canongate Books 2008 pbk £7.99 ISBN 978-1847670298
James Meek
Museum Of Doubt The Museum of Doubt is a new collection of surreal and unnerving short stories from award-winning writer James Meek. The array of characters who populate Meek's vague and elusive worlds are driven by paranoia and doubts, as well as hopes and fears of things only half-glimpsed.
Canongate Press 2006 pbk £7.99 ISBN 1841958085
![]() Author photo: © Sarah Lee
James Meek
The People's Act of Love Siberia 1919. In the outer reaches of a country recently torn apart by civil war live a small Christian sect and its enigmatic leader, Balashov. Stationed nearby is a regiment of Czech soldiers, desperate to get home but on the losing side if the recent conflict. Uncertainty prevails. Into this isolated community trudges Samarin, an escapee from Russia's northernmost gulag. Immediately apprehended, he is brought before Captain Matula, the regiment's megalomaniac commander. But the stranger's arrival has also caught the attention of others, including Anna, a beautiful young war widow. And when the local Shaman lies dead, suspicion and terror engulf the little town...
2006 Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year 2006 Ondaatje Prize Canongate Books 2005 pbk £10.99 ISBN 1-84195-662-7
![]() Author photo: © Sarah Lee
Author details available at http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth568941520cd1a1FE60MnRgD70D01
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2005/07/03/bomee03.xml http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,1523511,00.html http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/books/reviews/article297538.ece http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2102-1673300,00.html http://nigelbeale.com/?p=251
James Meek
We Are Now Beginning Our Descent The message was short. 'I want to see you now. I want you to come to me, it doesn't matter how late it is, and tell me exactly what you want from me.'Like the world around him, at the dawn of the twenty-first century, Adam Kellas' life is showing distinct signs of cracking apart. Against his better judgement, Kellas - divorced, unstable, spurned by his lover and by the world of letters - accepts a war assignment from his newspaper. It is the beginning of a journey which takes him from the mountains of Afghanistan to the elegant dinner tables of north London, the marshlands of the American South and, ultimately, to the darkest realms of the human imagination. Only the memory of the beautiful, elusive Astrid, a fellow reporter in Afghanistan, offers him the possibility of hope.
Canongate Books 2008 Hardcover £16.99 ISBN 978-1841959887
Author details available at http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth568941520cd1a1FE60MnRgD70D01
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/we-are-now-beginning-our-descent-by-james-meek-785313.html http://www.spectator.co.uk/the-magazine/books/464121/love-among-the-journalists.thtml http://www.lrb.co.uk/v30/n03/raba01_.html http://nigelbeale.com/?p=855
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